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Some exciting news from Nextbikes & RBS.
A trial has begun with nextbikes being available to hire by RBS employees to use in and around their Gogarburn campus (including offices in the Gyle).
Small scale to start with but good to see an employer taking actions to help look after the wellbeing of their staff.
Hope it works and others follow their lead.
(& well done to those who made it happen)
Good. I tried to get a shared bike for a well known taxi-addicted city institution with a dispersed campus once.
It foundered on perceived safety, status and grooming issues.
I do surely hope times have moved on, though the Gogarburn to Gyle cycle route isn't a very welcoming one, even for nuts like me.
"though the Gogarburn to Gyle cycle route isn't a very welcoming one"
If only there was a convenient route through a field and under a bypass...
I'd prefer to go under the field and through the bypass, but I'm a nut.
As a regular city cyclist it can be hard to keep in mind just how fearful and conservative people can be, and just how extreme and countercultural simple locomotion can seem to them.
A lot of ideas on the BUG noticeboard of how to use them- pub lunch at the Bridge in Ratho, races round a local loop, shopping at the Gyle.
There was a lot of enthusiasm at last week's launch and over 70 spokes maps were sold at the same time, so hopefully more people will be exploring more widely, either on these or on their own bikes..
countercultural simple locomotion
I like it.
@edd1e_h
So come on, come on - do the countercultural simple locomotion with me.
Where are RBS offices at Gyle, still next to the massive and very lovely sculpture? I quite like the cycle from Edinburgh park train station down the pavement path then under the bypass and up to gogar station road.
Well done to all making the Nextbikes happen at RBS.
With the calmed Gogar Road project it's becoming quite a centre for bike-related activity!
I know there was interest in using the hire versions of the Paper Bike but nothing came of that. The scheme chosen will allow the concept to get up and running faster which is great.
@gembo
It's not a very lovely sculpture, it's a Paolozzi.
the skiing accident one?
Ten hours taken to rebut Paolozzi as Artist claim IWRATS, you are slipping, I recall your blindspot re Eduardo. I had his beer the other day when we stopped off at the beer factory at Bankhead en route to the wasp factory at the cafe at Jupiter art land. Quite a bit less gassy than many lagers. Also the beer man revealed they were hoping to launch a craft ale of the brown ale variety this August but might be September now.
@gembo
I thought the wasp factory was on the Black Isle somewhere - truly I am slipping. My suspicion is that Goodwin personally OK'd the Gyle bronze dump. It all makes sense.
"My suspicion is that Goodwin personally OK'd "
Pre-dates him surely?
@chdot
Only in conventional linear chronologies.
Right...
I worked at red heughs Rigg when it was just student grants and SPS HQ. David Murray put in a lake, still there, before any buildings, the shopping centre nowhere to be seen 1992-1994 and the big bronze appeared at the time. Also before the shopping centre though it was being built as some hairdressers mistook me for the developer in the Oxford bar on our Xmas night out 1993 and gave me their cards as were after a spot. They can have one now no prob place is empty.
Cafe at Jupiter looks great, food is tasty if dear but the wasps are the real owners of the space and make this known to you instantly.
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